I believe that I am about to disagree with quite a few people now. You see, I did not like this movie.
Not that this came as much of a surprise to me. What I got was pretty much what I expected. From a technical point of view the movie is quite well done. Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart are doing good jobs as always. The action scenes are good. The cinematography is not at all bad. If you are into tragic drama and do not mind the super hero twist of the movie then this is a movie for you. The technical qualities is why this movie gets any stars at all from me. If I would judge it by story only then it would have gotten zero, null, nada, nicths, rien, ingenting.
For me it was depressing, boring and not at all fun to watch. The only reason I watched it is because I, as a X-Men fan, simply had to watch it as well as having it in my collection but I would have been happier it this movie had never been made.
Wolverine is more or less an unpleasant drinking bum clad in filthy ragged clothes. Professor X is half insane and apparently dangerous to himself and the people around him. We get absolutely no explanation as to how this sad state of affairs.
The entire movie is dark in spirit with the X-Men all but died out and Wolverine and Professor X just waiting to die. Then in comes this female child who later turns out to be a female version of Wolverine. She pretty much lacks any form of charisma and she and Wolverine spends almost the entire time in a state of conflict, much due to Wolverine who seems to think everyone should go fuck themselves so that he can continue to self destruct.
The bad guys are the usual evil corporation doing experiments on X-Men, genetics etc. Supposedly they were behind the almost extermination of X-Men but of course they keep their own little army of “enhanced” humans that doggedly harasses Wolverine & Co. There are some nice action sequences but there is really no good overall boss. No one with enough Charisma to take the role of the main adversary unless you count X-24 who only took part in a few parts of the movie.
By the way, why the fuck do Wolverine, Laura as well as X-24 have to grunt like horny monkeys when they fight?
The story is rather predictable with no major surprises, little depth and low on logic. A typical Hollywood drama. Not really anything to write home about.
The movie is just so depressing from start to finish. As a last farewell to Wolverine and Professor X it is almost insulting. I know a lot of people seem to like it but I cannot understand why. At least not if you are a X-Men fan.
Wow.
I was expecting this to be really good, but damn.... "Logan" is great. I'm not sure if it's the heat of the moment but (for me) "Logan" is one of the best superhero movies of all time, right next to "The Dark Knight".
"Logan" goes beyond the typical superhero movie where the good guys need to stop the bad ones from 'destroying the world'. "Logan" does what comic book movies should be doing right now. This is an independent movie where occasionally appear claws. The screenplay is beautiful, the performances are perfect and the action sequences were incredible.
I have not felt so much emotion watching a movie for a long time. Happiness, sadness, proud.... I cried 3 or 4 times and shead a tear in many moments. This film moved me in a very strong way.
Were 17 years of Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart in these roles and "Logan" was the best farewell to these characters played by them. Right from the first scene we see that this is the Wolverine we always wanted.
"Logan" explores very well this Wolverine. Hugh Jackman's performance allowed us to felt every single one of Wolverine's emotions throughout the all movie. Patrick Stewart was spetacular and I won't be surprised that in end of 2017 his performance was one of the best in the year. Dafne Keen was a good surprise, wasn't expecting her to be so good. The supporting cast was also perfect.
In the end of the film I knew there would be no post-credit scene. However, I decided to stay until the end to honor this beautiful movie. Thank you James Mangold, thank you Patrick Stewart and thank you very much, Hugh Jackman. You were the best Logan we could ask for.
[9.2/10] The Wolverine, the predecessor to Logan, focused on the notion of immortality as both a blessing and a curse, showing its protagonist contemplating the release of death as a release from the trauma of the horrors he’d witnessed and participated in. It presented a man on torn by that internal conflict, trying to decide what’s worth living for.
Logan both deepens and doubles down that internal conflict. The man we meet in the film, set in the not too distant future of 2029, has no more dilemmas about life versus death. He wants to die, seeming only to stick around to fulfill his responsibilities to Charles Xavier, the last living man to show kindness to him and see the best in him. He is a man ready to detach from the world, who believes that connections and belonging to others only leads to more pain and puts the people he cares about at risk.
Some number of Decades after the events of the prior X-men films (as Deadpool noted, the timeline’s pretty confusing), the dream of Professor X -- of his gifted students as a beacon of light unto the world -- has curdled into a sad reality, where mutants are going extinct and the idea that they could join together and benefit humanity has turned into a select few scrappers and survivors eking out an existence until the clock runs out.
In that, Logan’s closest analogue is less other films in the superhero genre, or even Westerns like Shane that the movie pays homage to, but Children of Men. It shares the same struggle against bleakness, the same worn out world its character inhabit, the same sense that hope for what comes next has dwindled down to nothing. And it shares the premise of one hollowed out man struggling to ferry the possible last hope for his kind, the first new life in a generation, to a sanctuary he may not even believe in.
It’s also a generational story, one that positions Wolverine between Xavier as his surrogate father, battling with a degenerative brain condition and still urging him to embrace the values of altruism and human connection despite the dire straights of their circumstances, and Laura, the equivalent of a daughter who shares Logan’s brusqueness and directness, not to mention his abilities and anger, but who also represents the idea that the next generation (no pun intended, Patrick Stewart) might do better, avoid the mistakes that still haunt Logan and keep him holding onto an adamantium bullet to wipe it all away.
With these weighty themes, Logan earns its R-rating regardless of how much blood is shed in its runtime. Nevertheless, it meets its quota of severed limbs and grisly scenes required of a picture freed from the constraints of tentpole PG-13 ratings. And yet, the gore rarely feels gratuitous. Instead, director James Mangold (who also directed The Wolverine) allows the audience to feel the brutality of Logan’s slashing and gutting. Instead of the weightless thrillride of most blockbuster action, there’s a visceral quality to Wolverine’s claws separating flesh from bone -- using the expanded palette of the R-rating to convey the horrors that Wolverine is and has been a party to, the vicious realities he’s ready to escape and grown so weary of.
That same sense of a worn down world emerges in the superlative cinematography and production design of the film. The opening portion of the film, set in the southwest, depicts a weathered wasteland amid technological advancements, with a blistering sun beating down on rusted spindles. The middle section gives way to night in the heartland, with darkened hues dancing around bits of light. And the final act of the film is full of naturalistic beauty, full of sumptuously shot forests and verdant landscape. The transition in settings as Wolverine and his coterie make their way to their destination, from barren land to a blooming wilderness helps symbolize Wolverine’s own internal journey from hopelessness to a belief that the chance for renewal is there.
It helps that Mangold brings outstanding performances out of all three of his leads. Stewart is mesmerizing, finding different notes to play in a man who’s remembering the unspeakable acts he’s responsible for, coping with the loss of his mental capacity and the cage that inevitably places him in, and still encourages a belief in a brighter tomorrow. Dafne Keen shines as young Laura, communicating determination and hints of the fire that once burned in her forebear in a mostly-wordless role.
And Hugh Jackman gives a performance worthy of what he’s claimed will be his last time donning the claws. After seventeen years with this character, Jackman’s Wolverine convincingly carries the weight of all that he’s done and seen, dismissive of the greater mission Xavier once again tries to instill in him, grappling with disappointment, in himself and the potential for something greater he once begrudgingly but earnestly bought into, and allowing himself, bit by bit, to consider the possibility that there are things still worth risking your life for, not just worth ending it.
The third act of the film hits some of these notes a little too hard, and gives into more of the standard superhero flick playbook than the prior, transfixing two-thirds of the film. But even there, as the sober atmosphere of the film gives way to some cheese and action, Logan keeps its themes at the heart of the film, creating an appropriate culmination to nine films’ worth of development of Wolverine that embraces where the character’s been and connects to where he began.
That is the question Logan is most concerned with -- was all of that worth it? While the film takes Wolverine’s past in broad strokes (thankfully largely omitting his misadventures in Origins), it takes those prior stories as fodder for the idea that Wolverine has strived and suffered and now finds himself questioning whether it got him, or the people he loved, or anyone for that matter, to anything approaching a better place, or if it all crumbled into nothing anyway.
Mangold, Jackman, and the rest of the film’s creators take the hardship, the piercing, hollowing out qualities of that sort of contemplation seriously, allowing it to weigh down their protagonist and the world he inhabits. But it’s not a film that wallows. Instead, Logan pulls no punches with what haunts Wolverine, but offers a chance for the lapsed hero to be redeemed, to see his fight and his existence, the path that Xavier set him on so long ago, leading to a chance for their successors to do more and do better. It is meditative and visceral, dispiriting and hopeful, showing a man ready to die, to cast off all that he was and did, rediscovering the promise, the justifying pull, of a worthwhile future, even one he may never see.
This is the dark realism that this franchise has been waiting for. Too bad it's the final film for the best character. The only negative thoughts that I had about the movie was the overabundance of spanish dialogue. If you want some of the dialogue to remain a mystery, you can't use a language that half your audience speaks, and the other half doesn't. And if it's not a mystery, use subtitles. It was just annoying. Other than that, it was a really engaging movie. The action scenes were directed amazingly (maybe I just have low standards after the god awful directing of all the marvel movies), and the one thing that was always missing was finally added: blood. That may sound juvenile, but think about how stupid it is to show a man slice through another man's body without so much as a drop of blood coming out. It was what made any scene with wolverine inherently corny in all his other movies. It just looked stupid, like violence for kids. This was a movie for people who don't like being taken out of movies. No cheesy jokes, no stupidity. This was an easy one to get through.
And Stephen Merchant!
2 / 2 directing & technical aspect
1 / 1 story
1 / 1 act I
1 / 1 act II
1 / 1 act III
1 / 1 acting
1 / 1 dialogue
0 / 1 originality
0 / 1 lasting ability to make you think
-.5......misc enjoyment point (spanish dialogue)
7.5 out of 10
Lemme set the scene, its my 5th time going cinema to see this film and it is a BAFTA screening and at the end of the film before the Q&A I got to meet Hugh Jackman and people he is one of the most loveliest actors I have ever met in my entire life..........this made me love the film even more :)
But lets get to the topic of this film, Logan is my favourite superhero film of all time and it might be one of my favourite films of all time as it is full of emotion, passion, Oscar worthy performances and a story that is the perfect send of and love letter to Hugh Jackman (Wolverine / Logan). Logan shows that this is a world where most of the mutants have all been hunted down or have died due to other reasons (I don't wanna spoil it) and the only mutants that are still alive from the original crew is Logan, Professor X and Caliban this makes this film even more emotional knowing this.
This film is flawless in my opinion as it is a love letter to the comic book genre but also to film and this is all down to the masterful direction from James Mangold who with every frame you can feel his passion for this character but also his love of cinema as it borrows from Sci-Fi, Westerns and weirdly enough horror in one scene in particular. The film revolves around Logan and Professor X helping to get a little girl across the country who is trying to escape from a group hunting down all the new mutants, but i really don't wanna spoil any of this if you haven't watched any trailers.
All of the performances in this film are just amazing, Hugh Jackman (Logan / Wolverine) could easily have been nominated for a best actor award at the Oscars as he is truly amazing in this and one of his best performances both acting wise and physically as he plays the ageing Logan so well and you will definitely cry at some of the moments if you grew up with this character. Also, Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier / Professor X) gives one of his best performances as well and will once again make you cry but will also make you laugh. Lastly, Dafne Keen (Laura / X-23) is just so perfect in this film and I really do hope when she gets older they bring her back as this character as she embodies X-23 really well.
This 1000% R-Rated and you know this from the first moment, so if you don'y like gore stay away and otherwise please please please watch this movie because it is just one of the greatest and just make sure to have some tissues near by.
"This is what life looks like. People who love each other. A home. You should take a moment... Feel it".
It's very rare that a X-men (or any superhero movie), could be the hardest thing I've ever progress in terms of my thoughts and feelings. Much hard when writing about it. Heck, I wouldn't even call it a superhero movie, but a mixture of both western and drama in disguise. No one is safe and the stakes are higher than before. While the villains themselves aren't anything I would call "great", but they did felt like a real threat and wasn't too cliché to the story.
Still...
"Logan" is one of the best non superhero movies I've seen in awhile. A sad but satisfying farewell to are fan favorite. A surprising character driven movie with real consequences. A bold and risky film that wouldn't have been made years ago in the hands of FOX. But I think it's the unexpected powerhouse that got me in many ways. Something the previous movies couldn't do.
Much darker and gruesome than I expected. Remember in "X-men: Apocalypse" when Wolverine goes on a full rampage and violently kills all the guards, but most of it was off-screen, even through you can clearly see blood on the walls. Well take that scene and imagine actually seeing him tearing through people. Yeah, it really goes for it and that ain't a bad thing.
Hugh Jackman has portrayed Wolverine for over seventeen years and this is by far his most powerful performance. It's the humanity and the depression of the character we never truly seen. Despite happening around him, Logan's true enemy is himself. Before the end of an era, he learns the meaning of family and being a hero for others. I know this may sound far-fetch, but I would go as far to say that Jackman deserves some award buzz for this. The raw emotion he brought to his scenes without any sloppy music under neath it, is achievement. Jackman will forever be Wolverine and nothing will top that.
Patrick Stewart delivers his last and most heartfelt performance as Charles Xavier. In this movie, he isn't the same Professor X who know and love. He is 90 year old, suffers from dementia, and has a dirty mouth. But at the same time, he's a father figure to Logan. The scenes between Stewart and Jackman are one of the few highlights of the film.
Dafne Keen was fantastic as Laura/X-23. She captures the characters inner emotions just by her facial expressions that says so much than dialogue. What's more impressive that this is her first major role and already I'm interested of what she dose next.
I have to give major credit to James Mangold for what he brings to this harsh, but beautiful film. I wouldn't say he's an absolute professional when it comes to action scenes and story, but the perfect balance of brutal and bleakness he brought to those scenes was freaking spot on. The Wolverine series have been all over the place in terms of quality and tone. Mangold gave me what I wanted for years and much more.
Overall rating: "Logan" is a special kind of ride that hits you in places you wouldn't expect. I grinned and cried at the right moments. And that last shot was just perfect.
Farewell bub.
"Logan, you still have time," says a panting Patrick Stewart in this X-Men sequel that bucks the previous trend of showmanship and gloss. In this latest installment of Hugh Jackman's (aka Logan) Wolverine, he's a very different beast. Melancholic, drunk with remorse, and with age advancing fast, we find the wolverine on a downward spiral. He no longer heals like he used to, he no longer feels like he used to, and he keeps running away from both the past and the present.
This terrifying quality has always marked Hugh Jackman's character. Even when we first met Wolverine in 'X-Men,' he was already disenchanted with the world. His superpowers had already made him the target of both casual and determined enemies, justifying his disdain for those who offered help. Yet it's this stubbornness of pursuit (along with Jackman's sarcastic performance) that has always made his performance the talisman of every X-Men movie, and in 'Logan' that humanity is given free rein to play out its pain. and adult dissatisfaction. Like the man who just wants to be left alone, the world stubbornly refuses to heed Logan's request. His powers, now a blessing in decline, remain a commodity to others and you know the beast Logan has tried so long to tame is just one wrong word away. However, time is running out fast for the man who cannot die.
In the end, the adult melancholy that pervades 'Logan' is complete and satisfying. It's a sequel that has time and space for pain, tenderness, and is better for it. Happily, the dirt and grime of 'Logan' isn't an embellishment for another disappointment: it's a triumph. It is a triumph beyond the expectations and considerations of the production company. In the sun-scorched vulnerability of 'Logan', Hugh Jackman has finally found the setting where this iron man can rage.
"Logan, todavía tienes tiempo", dice un Patrick Stewart jadeante en esta secuela de X-Men que rompe con la tendencia anterior de espectáculo y brillo. En esta última entrega de Wolverine de Hugh Jackman (también conocido como Logan), es una bestia muy diferente. Melancólico, embriagado de remordimiento y con la edad avanzando rápido, encontramos al wolverine en un espiral descendente. Ya no se cura como solía, ya no siente como solía y sigue huyendo tanto del pasado como del presente.
Esta cualidad aterradora siempre ha marcado al personaje de Hugh Jackman. Incluso cuando conocimos a Wolverine por primera vez en 'X-Men', ya estaba desencantado con el mundo. Sus superpoderes ya lo habían convertido en objetivo de enemigos tanto casuales como determinados, lo que justificaba su desdén hacia quienes ofrecían ayuda. Sin embargo, es esta terquedad de persecución (junto con la interpretación sarcástica de Jackman) lo que siempre ha hecho que su actuación sea el talismán de cada película de X-Men y en 'Logan' esa humanidad se da rienda suelta para desarrollar su dolor y insatisfacción adultos. Como sucede con el hombre que solo quiere ser dejado solo, el mundo se niega obstinadamente a atender la petición de Logan. Sus poderes, ahora una bendición en declive, siguen siendo una mercancía para otros y sabes que la bestia que Logan ha tratado de domesticar por tanto tiempo está solo a una palabra equivocada de salir. Sin embargo, el tiempo se agota rápidamente para el hombre que no puede morir.
Al final, la melancolía adulta que invade 'Logan' es completa y satisfactoria. Es una secuela que tiene tiempo y espacio para el dolor, la ternura y está mejor por ello. Alegremente, la suciedad y la mugre de 'Logan' no son un adorno para otra decepción: es un triunfo. Es un triunfo más allá de las expectativas y las consideraciones de la compañía productora. En la vulnerabilidad abrasada por el sol de 'Logan', Hugh Jackman finalmente ha encontrado el escenario donde este hombre de hierro puede enfurecerse.
A very hard R for Hugh Jackman's last call as Wolverine, easily the most unapologetically dark, violent take we've ever seen from a Marvel property. It's a jolt at first, but also necessary to effectively and immediately shift the tone from the campier tendencies of the greater X-Men franchise to the sad, defeated near-future of this timeline.
There's a bucketful of carnage, but also a wealth of character moments, particularly between Xavier, Logan and Laura, the young mutant also known as X-23. This area has always been trouble for Fox's X-films, with so many faces cramming the screen that it can often be tough to remember names, let alone a convincing motivation. This time, that scope is kept intentionally narrow, and it bears ripe fruit. Particularly during the gut-wrenching final scenes, which not only deliver a strong sense of closure to all three arcs, but also reveal the troubling reality that tomorrow's heroes may have already been corrupted by the path they've unwillingly marched.
Outstanding work from the leading actors, particularly Jackman and Stewart, who have a long and successful chemistry together, and a surprisingly bright supporting effort from Stephen Merchant, of all people. It's a bold finale that should finally give mature fans of the genre something wet and meaty to sink their teeth into. Refreshing proof that not every superhero story needs to be bleached for a younger audience.
"This is what life looks like. People who love each other. A home. You should take a moment... Feel it".
It's very rare that a X-men (or any superhero movie), could be the hardest thing I've ever progress in terms of my thoughts and feelings. Much hard when writing about it. Heck, I wouldn't even call it a superhero movie, but a mixture of both western and drama in disguise. No one is safe and the stakes are higher than before. While the villains themselves aren't anything I would call "great", but they did felt like a real threat and wasn't too cliché to the story.
Still...
"Logan" is one of the best non superhero movies I've seen in awhile. A sad but satisfying farewell to are fan favorite. A surprising character driven movie with real consequences. A bold and risky film that wouldn't have been made years ago in the hands of FOX. But I think it's the unexpected powerhouse that got me in many ways. Something the previous movies couldn't do.
Much darker and gruesome than I expected. Remember in "X-men: Apocalypse" when Wolverine goes on a full rampage and violently kills all the guards, but most of it was off-screen, even through you can clearly see blood on the walls. Well take that scene and imagine actually seeing him tearing through people. Yeah, it really goes for it and that ain't a bad thing.
Hugh Jackman has portrayed Wolverine for over seventeen years and this is by far his most powerful performance. It's the humanity and the depression of the character we never truly seen. Despite happening around him, Logan's true enemy is himself. Before the end of an era, he learns the meaning of family and being a hero for others. I know this may sound far-fetch, but I would go as far to say that Jackman deserves some award buzz for this. The raw emotion he brought to his scenes without any sloppy music under neath it, is achievement. Jackman will forever be Wolverine and nothing will top that.
Patrick Stewart delivers his last and most heartfelt performance as Charles Xavier. In this movie, he isn't the same Professor X who know and love. He is 90 year old, suffers from dementia, and has a dirty mouth. But at the same time, he's a father figure to Logan. The scenes between Stewart and Jackman are one of the few highlights of the film.
Dafne Keen was fantastic as Laura/X-23. She captures the characters inner emotions just by her facial expressions that says so much than dialogue. What's more impressive that this is her first major role and already I'm interested of what she dose next.
I have to give major credit to James Mangold for what he brings to this harsh, but beautiful film. I wouldn't say he's an absolute professional when it comes to action scenes and story, but the perfect balance of brutal and bleakness he brought to those scenes was freaking spot on. The Wolverine series have been all over the place in terms of quality and tone. Mangold gave me what I wanted for years and much more.
Overall rating: "Logan" is a special kind of ride that hits you in places you wouldn't expect. I grinned and cried at the right moments. And that last shot was just perfect.
Farewell bub.
"Hey, it's 2029, why are we still talking about mutants?"
Oh, God, we're only 5 years away from the "not too distant future" first used in X-Men (2000).
"And since the wheel lugs they found belonged to a '24 Chrysler, and, well, this is a '24 Chrysler.
Logan's leasing a Chrysler limo manufactured this year. Please take me back to the "not too distant future" time. My current vehicle was released when X-2: X-Men United was released, and that already seemed like too long ago before the franchise catching up to now.
God, Boyd Holbrook is so good at playing the slimy asshole.
Apocalypse was a terrible X-Men movie, but bringing Caliban back for this with Stephen Merchant playing him was a wonderful idea.
Oh, God, I am not ready to watch Stewart's Charles Xavier die again, especially when he has to be so severely medicated because of how dangerous his seizures are.
Okay, hearing him say "Fuck off, Logan. kinda eases the heartbreak, since we'd never heard him speak like that before. Him dropping the f-bomb so much is still as weird to hear as it was when Community moved to Yahoo! and the show didn't have to censor strong language anymore.
"What a disappointment you are." Jesus, that really hits hard hearing Patrick Stewart saying that as Charles Xavier.
Damn, it still amazes me that little Dafne Keen could emote that much just through facial expressions and zero dialogue. Or believably throw a bunch of grown men with guns around like rag dolls when she couldn't have weighed 90 pounds soaking wet. I know that was the point of her character's introduction, but I'm still blown away by how well it was executed. A kid actor trying to match the ferocity of Jackman's Wolverine in Wolverine's prime could've easily backfired, but Keen absolutely nailed it.
Oh, god, Charles apologizing on the way out of the hotel is just pure fucking heartbreak. A man and mutant as conscientious, careful, and caring as he always was unintentionally hurting a bunch of people because he can't control his powers during a seizure is still devastating to see.
"You know, Logan? This was, without a doubt, the most perfect night I've had in a very long time. But I don't deserve it, do I? I did something, something unspeakable. I've remembered what happened in Westchester. This is not the first time I've hurt people. Until today, I didn't know. You wouldn't tell me, so we just kept on running away from it. I think I finally understand you. Logan?"
You sons of bitches just had to have him say that, right before, didn't you? I've watched Patrick Stewart's Charles Xavier die so many times that I should've been numb to it by 2017, and that wouldn't be the last, but having him say that before the second-to-last time still fucking hits as hard as it did in March 2017. The only small comfort is knowing that Charles knew it wasn't Logan who killed him in the last few seconds of his life.
"No, no, no. Let him come to us. We struggled with the X-23s. We assumed, because they were children, we could raise them without a conscience. But you can't nurture rage. You must simply design it from scratch."
Goddamn, Dr. Rice managed to out-evil Bolivar Trask and William Stryker with just that one line. Richard E. Grant was perfect casting for Rice, as per usual with this franchise.
"Beware the light." The fucking perfect mic-drops in this franchise!
Laura watching Logan beat the shit out of the truck with a shovel, thinking, "Hmm. Wonder if that's where my rage issues come from?"
Laura starting to speak in Spanish at light speed makes Mr. Munson's line about "the nonsense that comes out of kids' mouths" making him envious of Laura's silence really hit home haha.
"And it is better this way, because I suck at this! Bad shit happens to people I care about, you understand me?"
God, 17 years of Jackman being in Logan's skin really makes those kind of lines hit.
"Not all at once, Rictor." LMAO, telling Logan not to use all the super-mutant steroids at once when he's on his last legs was pretty much a guarantee that he was gonna mainline that entire bottle to become Jay in Mallrats: "Snickety, snickety, snoin!"
Oh, man, hearing that Wolverine roar...goddamn, nothing better.
And we're back to Yukio's vision of Logan's death, from The Wolverine: "I see you on your back, there's blood everywhere. You're holding your own heart in your hand."
"Don't be what they made you. So this is what it feels like."
And of course Bobby had his Wolverine action figure at the funeral. And of course Laura would tilt the homemade cross to make an X. I'd like to pretend I maintained composure in that theater back in March 2017, but seeing that X made sure I would not!
I know Jackman's back as Wolverine for Deadpool 3, but the best part of this movie is that Disney could keep bringing him back, and it wouldn't make the ending any less powerful.
Bastards had to use Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" for the end credits, just like they had to use his cover of Hurt for the trailer. "Hey, 'member when we roped you into seeing this movie with a Johnny Cash song? Well, here's the perfect bookend!"
I have watched this a few times and although a good movie in its own right, but seems like the opposite to all of the other movies where they overcome and win in the end, although its really a spinoff that does not make much sense compared to the rest of the movies.
To me it just feels so lame after all the other X-Men movies and kinda shits all over wolverine as a character, it also makes no real sense as we are supposed to believe that all the X-Men are gone and xavier is retarded now and somehow no one could prevent this even though there are X-Men that can see the future for example and also could just send wolverine back in time again to solve all problems like they did in future past or find a way to heal xavier, also the stupid, they are putting stuff in the food that hurts mutants, omg well i will just keep eating this crap and not for example grow my own which is hardly going to be something the X-Men could not manage to do lol.
I understand they just wanted to kill off logan so hugh jackman could finish playing wolverine but it just seems so stupid to do it like that, it would have been a much better movie had they managed to save wolverine at the end with another shot of that serum and he would have took the place of xavier as the leader of the X-Men.
So overall not a big fan of the writing in this one and it just seems kinda boring most of the way through.
Now this is my kind of comic book movie. Starts off ultra grim, violent, pessimistic, and gore filled and... well it doesn't really ever stop being that.
Patrick Stewart's run at playing Professor X in his final years of his life, suffering from dementia was wonderfully portrayed, and the revelation that he was the one that killed the X Men and the mutants in the end was stunning and heart breaking and about the bleakest end to that story I could even imagine.
Logan is broken and what I thought was alcoholism killing him, was actually his adamantium implants, degrading his bone over time as his control over them is lessened and his injuries heal slower by the day.
His new-found daughter, Lauren, is a great new character, showing an absolute viciousness and lack of moral compass out in the real world, with all of Logan's unbridled rage, with even more killing capability. Apparently they want to do a movie about her and I'm down for it. I don't care about the rest of her stupid little friends doing some kids X Men thing (though I heard thats exactly what they want to do, as the X Men spin-off, X Force) but if they manage to keep it dark, despite it being a bunch of kids, it could actually be surprisingly good.
Logan being both saved by his own genes (his final acceptance of familial love) and killed by his own genes (by X-24) is the ultimate send off to one of the most iconic characters in both comic and film history and they really need to let him stay dead for a long while before the inevitable re-cast. Hugh Jackman is synonymous with the role for anyone who has seen him play it.
Logan may be too dark for the usual MCU audience, but its a well done emotional story about accepting one's own choices and was a perfect ending to the character.
Overall I'd put it at top 5 comic book inspired movie ever. Sin City is #1. The first 2 Nolan Batman movies are 2 and 3. Then this immediately after those. Maybe that's just me, but I adored this movie. I might even be under-rating it in terms of score but, 8.
This movie changed my perspective on superhero movies. Not only have I not seen any superhero movie tackle this kind of an outline before but also narrate it in a way that stays true to the genre. I love the superhero genre and am a big fan of the MCU movies. But I do consider them to be genre films in the sense that when they are merged with other genres it does feel new. For example, Cap America 2 mixed its usual theme with the spy genre. Although it was a great move, I don't think that aspect itself should be anything to commend on. My exact feelings for the reason Get Out was getting acclaim for. Merging genres to make your film look fresh does feel like a cop out in some ways. This is where Logan scores big. It is not just a great superhero movie but also a film which genuinely wants to tell a story. It succeeds in it and how!
There's no way this movie can resonate with everyone because it doesn't cater to the usual superhero tropes. I mean the protagonist is a has-been and not in a way in which he overcomes his fear at the end and emerges on top. It is telling a story about a man who has a motive but he knows that it might be his last one. But to me he's still larger than life because he already knows it's not gonna do him any good. And that is what Wolverine has always been for me because pain has always been an integral part in his life. Hence, although his fate's evident, I can't hold my tears whenever I watch the end.
There is so much about Laura and Charles that I wanna talk about. Their conversations with Logan are probably the most important parts in the movie as they can make or break the tone. But Mangold knows what he wants as an end product so there isn't a way where it could've gone wrong. Laura obviously feels like a better version of Wolverine and not just in the way in which she annihilates her preys but also in the sense that she doesn't have many skeletons yet and goes in all guns blazing. Perfect heir to the Adamantium throne!! The professor stays in character which is probably more important than Logan being his old self because Logan still needs his truth serum every now and then. Not that any of that helps since he bites the dust in the most frustrating way possible.
The Dark Knight trilogy is arguably the best in the genre for a very simple reason. It has a texture that it doesn't break. I'll say the same for Logan. Or maybe it's just that I have a type. But I really can't remember a movie introducing a character in such a bad-ass manner.
The movie is served well by the fact it follows a few characters. The viewer gets to develop an interest in seeing what happens to them. It stands in contrast to other movies that are so jam packed with characters that each one barely gets enough screen time for a one or two lines. The movie dedicates a good amount of time to character development, while still having the flashy action blockbuster movie goers expect.
Patrick Stewart is superb at portraying his role as an aged man. Charles is proud and wise at what's truly important in life, yet he has to accept that his body is now frail and tired. I think this Charles will resonate strongly with anyone caring for an elderly significant other. But at the same time, he's almost unrecognizable compared to the Charles Xavier character from past movies.
Dafne Keen also stands out. She has the most character development as Laura. Laura's detachment and keeping a distance from people she distrusts seemed realistic and reminiscent of unaccompanied minor refugees in today's world. The bond between her and the elderly Charles is acted out well as it is unspoken.
Even Hugh Jackman tries with the script he's got. He didn't nail the clone character, partly due to how it's scripted.
Once again Hollywood can't write a tidy script if their lives depended on it. The bad guys seem able to monitor what the clone sees, yet they haven't put something in his body to shut him down/control his movements? If the clone doesn't follow orders precisely, then he's as 'defective' as the mutant children. And why doesn't he have an earpiece or implant to communicate with his handlers?
The video Gabriela leaves behind works to explain the backstory to the movie, except for why the comic book has the meeting coordinates. The comic book makers know about the mutant children or use it as a meeting point anyway? If so, then shouldn't someone be there to guard the meeting point and receive newcomers?
It would've been fine if the coordinates were handwritten in the comic book as they were on the back of Laura's group picture. Or leave the comic book out of it. Laura's group picture would have been enough, as that's what the bad guy found. Logan would see the picture, know the coordinates point to the middle of nowhere, and treat it with the same doubt and disdain as he does when he sees the comic book.
On the other hand, Charles' powers were still strong enough to paralyze a building full of people, and to communicate with Laura; Plus Laura knows how to sense and engage multiple enemies, but neither sensed Logan's clone killing people as he comes! Given his powers and intelligence, Charles' death was pathetic and anti-climactic. Laura's speech at the grave site injects some much needed emotion and recaptures the viewer. But there was no saving the next death.
Logan's death destroys what's left of the viewers' suspended disbelief. We have seen Logan manage to heal from all sorts of injuries. Even his illness isn't completely stopping his ability to heal, and he should be an expert at surviving fights. What the hell was wrong with him anyway? I thought Laura would somehow be the key to cure his illness.
The shot he took healed all his previous injuries, Thus, he shouldn't be so weak after it wears off. With a body full of adamantium, it shouldn't be so easy to kill him simply by impaling him to a tree. Couldn't the enemy shoot adamantium bullets or some weapon that could give him a mortal wound? Unless that was an adamantium tree, nothing adds up. His death was so unbelievable that after he was buried I expected to see the movie end with his claws sticking out of the ground.
Instead, the movie just sort of ends blandly.
Review by Lee Brown Barrow Movie BuffVIP 3BlockedParent2017-02-28T15:01:04Z
This is the Unforgiven of superhero movies, a brutal yet tender portrayal of former heroes growing old. Logan is tired and world weary, waiting for death to take away his pain. Charles is 90, riddled with drugs to mute his mind, his "super weapon." Despite their friendship their relationship is fractured. Into their lives comes a new mutant and a road trip begins.
I don't want to say much more, having given away a little of the premise already explored in the films trailers. This is a tough, violent and sad film with few moments of humour. There is action but not of the blockbuster kind, one key car chase is like something from a 70's thriller.
This is the swan song of Logan and Charles, both actors giving it their all in their final performances as these characters. To bring them back after this film would undermine their work and the story here.
The film is brilliant and I can't recommend it enough - don't expect a traditional X-Men movie and you will be blown away. If the film itself were a mutant I would say its genes had been spliced with Mad Max and Shane, with a little bit of Children of the Corn (and I mean that in a good way). Excelsior!